Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 252 306
Rank change year-on-year -93 +54 -97
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 461 585 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.32% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.42% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 215 309 519
10th Percentile £38,984 £46,000 £40,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £64,627 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +10.10% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -83 417 £66,771 -4.61% 303
London +3 252 £82,500 +3.13% 186
Work from Home +82 250 £63,076 -2.96% 132
UK excluding London -156 148 £63,076 -2.40% 148
North of England -18 59 £75,000 -6.25% 23
North West +25 37 £85,000 +9.68% 12
South East -119 30 £47,500 -32.14% 36
Midlands -45 23 £60,000 - 24
East of England -16 20 £60,100 -7.54% 23
Yorkshire -36 19 £63,076 +94.08% 9
West Midlands -30 17 £58,750 -6.00% 16
South West -92 15 £62,500 +4.17% 27
East Midlands -37 6 £152,500 +190.48% 8
Scotland -10 3 £55,000 +22.22% 10
North East -37 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 1
Wales -30 1 £69,501 +16.11% 5

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (2.60%) Confluence
3 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (9.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (6.29%) Workfront
2 4 (0.87%) Shopify
3 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.43%) Magento
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.92%) AWS
2 58 (12.58%) SaaS
3 46 (9.98%) Azure
4 43 (9.33%) iPaaS
5 19 (4.12%) GitHub
6 18 (3.90%) Pulumi
7 15 (3.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 13 (2.82%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.60%) GCP
9 12 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.95%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.74%) Figma
12 6 (1.30%) Asana
13 5 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.08%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.87%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.87%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.87%) H2O.ai
14 4 (0.87%) Miro
14 4 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.75%) Broadband
2 30 (6.51%) HTTP
3 12 (2.60%) WAN
4 11 (2.39%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.95%) LAN
6 4 (0.87%) Firewall
6 4 (0.87%) Network Security
6 4 (0.87%) NGN
6 4 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.65%) MPLS
7 3 (0.65%) Multicast
7 3 (0.65%) Wireless
8 2 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.43%) WLAN
9 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.22%) DNS
9 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.22%) SAN
9 1 (0.22%) Skype
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.41%) Metadata
2 18 (3.90%) NoSQL
2 18 (3.90%) RDBMS
2 18 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.39%) Power BI
4 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.87%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.65%) Big Data
5 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (5.42%) JIRA
2 18 (3.90%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.87%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 154 (33.41%) Marketing
2 150 (32.54%) Finance
3 143 (31.02%) Social Skills
4 82 (17.79%) Banking
5 63 (13.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (12.58%) Retail
7 50 (10.85%) Law
8 48 (10.41%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (9.54%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (6.29%) Public Sector
11 27 (5.86%) Back Office
12 25 (5.42%) Legal
13 19 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (3.47%) Manufacturing
15 14 (3.04%) Financial Institution
15 14 (3.04%) Italian Language
15 14 (3.04%) Retail Banking
16 11 (2.39%) German Language
17 10 (2.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 138 (29.93%) Product Manager
2 81 (17.57%) Senior
3 76 (16.49%) Lead
4 63 (13.67%) Product Owner
5 43 (9.33%) Senior Manager
6 38 (8.24%) Senior Product Manager
7 31 (6.72%) Development Engineer
7 31 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.51%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.77%) Developer
10 19 (4.12%) Consultant
10 19 (4.12%) Product Lead
11 15 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (3.25%) Senior Development Engineer
11 15 (3.25%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 15 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (3.04%) Business Consultant
12 14 (3.04%) Business Development Consultant
12 14 (3.04%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.94%) REST
2 18 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (1.08%) CSS
3 5 (1.08%) HTML
4 4 (0.87%) Keras
4 4 (0.87%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.87%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.65%) .NET
5 3 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.43%) Pandas
6 2 (0.43%) Plotly
6 2 (0.43%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.43%) Spring
6 2 (0.43%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.22%) JSON
7 1 (0.22%) Playwright
7 1 (0.22%) RESTful
7 1 (0.22%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 143 (31.02%) Product Ownership
2 54 (11.71%) Social Media
3 44 (9.54%) Marketing Technology
3 44 (9.54%) Over-the-Top Content
4 33 (7.16%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.72%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.77%) Onboarding
7 21 (4.56%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.60%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.74%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.52%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.52%) Podcast
14 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.08%) Educational Technology
15 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.87%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.42%) Linux
2 18 (3.90%) Unix
3 6 (1.30%) Windows
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (64.86%) Roadmaps
2 214 (46.42%) Agile
3 139 (30.15%) Product Roadmap
4 113 (24.51%) Product Vision
5 99 (21.48%) Decision-Making
6 95 (20.61%) Mentoring
7 93 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 89 (19.31%) AI
8 89 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (17.35%) User Stories
10 76 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (15.84%) Customer Experience
11 73 (15.84%) Product Requirements
11 73 (15.84%) User Experience
12 70 (15.18%) Product Backlog
13 64 (13.88%) Product Strategy
14 63 (13.67%) Sprint Planning
15 60 (13.02%) Software Engineering
16 56 (12.15%) Analytics
17 54 (11.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.50%) Java
2 30 (6.51%) Python
3 25 (5.42%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.34%) Bash
5 18 (3.90%) Go
6 8 (1.74%) SQL
7 6 (1.30%) Bicep
8 3 (0.65%) C#
8 3 (0.65%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) R
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (14.53%) Degree
2 21 (4.56%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.74%) HNC
6 8 (1.74%) HND
7 7 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.65%) CCNA
9 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.65%) CISSP
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) CBAP
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) IIBA
10 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.99%) QA
2 16 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.74%) GDPR
4 7 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.08%) SLA
6 3 (0.65%) PERC
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) GMP
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
2 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.72%) Terraform
2 21 (4.56%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.90%) Ansible
3 18 (3.90%) Argo
3 18 (3.90%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (11.28%) Adobe
2 45 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.72%) Google
4 9 (1.95%) Oracle
5 8 (1.74%) Cisco
5 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.08%) Dell
6 5 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.87%) Databricks
7 4 (0.87%) NVIDIA
7 4 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.87%) Toshiba
8 3 (0.65%) Aderant
8 3 (0.65%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.65%) CQG
8 3 (0.65%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.65%) Patsystems
8 3 (0.65%) Reuters
8 3 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (0.65%) Trayport